Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide in Australia.

Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
Talk Tonight
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
The Dying of the Light
Sad Song
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
The Mexican
Half the World Away
Listen Up
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had a Gun...
The Masterplan
Wonderwall
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger

Noel Gallagher reckons he makes less money and wins fewer awards as an independent artist with his band High Flying Birds then he did when he was signed to a record label.

But according to the co-founder of Britpop band Oasis, he's enjoying working as an independent artist.

With Oasis, who signed to Creation Records in the UK and had a worldwide deal with Sony, Gallagher said he didn't like the people he had to deal with at the labels.

"I enjoy not working with people in record labels ... it's nice to get away from that mob," Gallagher said on The Project on Tuesday night.

The British musician was speaking from Byron Bay where he performed over the weekend at Bluesfest.

Last year, his album Chasing Yesterday with his solo project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds reached number one in the UK, but in typical sardonic fashion he explained how he doesn't make much money or get many accolades for his music now.

"I enjoy the lack of money that I make. I enjoy the lack of record sales. I also enjoy the lack of recognition and the lack of awards that I receive because quite frankly my mantelpiece was chokka-block with the f*****g things, it's nice to take a backseat," he said.

By the time they split in 2009, Oasis had sold about 70 million records - they had also won a total of 37 awards for their music, including Brits, MTV Europe Music Awards and NME Awards.

When the band first broke onto the scene in the 1990s they were purveyors of the Britpop genre along with bands such as Blur and Pulp. It was a genre inspired by retro pop bands such as The Beatles and comprised of standard rock group instrumentation - guitars, drums and lead singer.

In the current production-led climate, it could be difficult to see where Oasis would fit in. Their closest comparison today might be Coldplay who work with dance producers such as Avicii, or The Arctic Monkeys who aren't afraid to mix it up with some psychedelic influences.

However, Gallagher reckons there would still be a place for them musically.

"There'd be some major differences the way the music business is - the music will remain timeless so I think it'd be the same but we'd probably have worse clothes and less of a drug habit, probably," he said.

While he's been performing in Australia with his solo project, he still plays Oasis hits on stage.

"I give the people what they want as long as I can play what I want, everybody goes home happy," he said.

Gallagher has three more gigs in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth before he flies out for a European and US tour that brings him right up until the end of August.

He's still playing gigs after more than 20 years in the music business, and he knows that's something to be grateful for, regardless of what material from what period of his career he's performing.

"To see people reacting to new songs is great and all the old stuff is great and I'm just glad to be still doing it at my age quite frankly," he said.

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne in Australia.

Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
Talk Tonight
The Death of You and Me
Champagne Supernova
The Dying of the Light
Sad Song
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
You Know We Can't Go Back
Half the World Away
If I Had a Gun...
The Mexican
Listen Up
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
Wonderwall
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger

Photos have emerged of Axl Rose leaving AC/DC’s rehearsal space making it look even more likely that he’ll replace Brian Johnson as the band’s frontman, but it’s not the decision that Noel Gallagher would’ve made.

Gallagher played Bluesfest over the weekend with his band Noel Gallager’s High Flying Birds and has also been playing sideshows. Triple M spoke to the ever-outspoken Gallagher backstage at his gig in Sydney where he offered up his opinion on Rose potentially joining the legendary Aussie band.

“Wrong, that’s wrong,” Gallagher told host Matthew Johns before he was prodded about what would happen if brother Liam Gallagher asked to join his band.

“It would never happen would it,” he said.

“What would I say to him? I’d say behave yourself mate.”

Gallagher has in the past had some very colourful things to say about his brother, so that is probably a tame response by comparison. Recently, he shut down rumours of an Oasis reunion on the South American leg of Lollapalooza telling The Mirror, “Liam is a very angry man still.”

“He tends to make the easiest things really difficult,” he said.

Despite the fact that Liam probably wouldn’t be up for it, Noel thinks that he could tour the songs without Liam one day,

“I could see a day where, myself, I could do shows with just Oasis songs,” he said.

“I might think about it. There might come a day, one day, where it might seem like a good idea, but I have so much I want to do on my own.”

Noel has been playing as Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds since 2011 while Liam formed Beady Eye in the same year. The latter band broke up at the end of 2014.

28 March 2016

The man who introduced the band Oasis to each other is calling on Noel Gallagher to heal the rift with his brother Liam and put the band back together.

Paul ‘Bigun’ Ashbee believes that his pal Liam has been let down by Noel. And he thinks public criticism of Liam has been unfair in contrast to the positive reception of Noel’s music since he quit the band in 2009.

He believes Liam is so closely linked with the band, fans are unable to accept the Manchester rock legend pursuing anything else. So he is calling on singer-songwriter Noel, who went on to form Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, to do the right thing by “our kid” and put him back in the spotlight with Oasis.

Paul said: “Poor Liam is suffering. Because until Noel says ‘Oasis is getting back together‘ he is backed into a corner waiting.

“Liam has been hammered for being himself. If Noel has any love for Liam he has to (put Oasis back together).

“Liam needs that stage but he has been left in limbo.

“He should go to his little brother and say ‘alright our kid. Let’s give the world what they want.’”

Paul has known Liam, whose post-Oasis outfit Beady Eye disbanded in 2014, for 30 years.

He employed him as a car valet and made rock and roll history by introducing the singer to his childhood friend Bonehead, a guitarist with the band The Rain which later became Oasis. After Noel later joined the band they became international stars.

This summer football agent Paul will release a tell-all book about Oasis called Giving it the Bigun, Oasis, Football, Manchester and Me.

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Byron Bay Bluesfest 2016, Byron Bay in Australia.

Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
The Death of You and Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Half the World Away
Sad Song
The Dying of the Light
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
The Mexican
Wonderwall
Listen Up
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
If I Had a Gun...
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at the Hordern Pavillion, Sydney in Australia.

Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
The Death of You and Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Half the World Away
The Dying of the Light
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
The Mexican
Wonderwall
Sad Song
Listen Up
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
If I Had a Gun...
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger

25 March 2016

Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher discussed the state of rock and his brother Liam Gallagher in an interview with Latercera. Note that these quotes have been translated.

When asked if he misses his brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam, he said he did not. “Of course not! (Raises his voice). He’s just a fucking annoying.”

Noel also claimed that he is the last representative of rock and roll. “If you look at this [Lollapalooza] festival, there is no rock band. Florence, which I love and is my friend, is not rock, not Eminem. That playing [in the background] is rock? (Alabama Shakes’ set is heard in the background is heard). Make no mistake, it is not. Besides me, I do not know anyone who today represents rock and roll. Of all the new groups circulating, there is nothing that has made me say lately, ‘Wow, I wish I had made it.'”

Noel Gallagher has been forced to cancel tonight's show at ASB Theatre in Auckland. The stormy weather currently affecting The North Island has delayed the arrival of most of the band's equipment which had been due to fly in from South America where Noel had been performing at the Lollapalooza Festival.

A spokesperson for the band said "Everyone is really disappointed to have come all this way and not be able to do a show. Despite our crew working on alternatives since the early hours of this morning there is too much equipment missing so we have regrettably taken the decision to cancel the performance".

Noel Gallagher recently discussed a possible Oasis reunion with 89 Radio Rock “I guess fans would really really like it to happen. But I don’t care about that. I was in Oasis for twenty years, we’ve done everything we had to do and if we were to reform it would be for the money. And there’s nothing wrong with that – I fucking love money. But I don’t need the money. When I do need the money, eventually I will need the money, trust me, we will fucking reform.”

Before his show at Lollapalooza, Noel Gallagher talked to La Nacion about his solo project and Oasis era.

When asked about what he misses from Oasis, he answered sometimes he misses playing only the guitar without singing all the time, nothing more, since he thinks his songs are better now than when he played with Oasis.

The journalist then asked if there are songs he thinks are meant to be sung by Liam. He replied: “No. And Liam is not a good singer anymore”. And then he added he doesn’t miss his brother at all: “I was with him in a band”.

Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Lollapalooza, Santiago in Chile.

Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
The Death of You and Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Half the World Away
Listen Up
The Mexican
Digsy's Dinner
If I Had a Gun...
Wonderwall
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger